CNN insists ISIS lures women... with Nutella & kittens. For real.

The Islamic State, the savage militant group wreaking bloody havoc across the Middle East, has purportedly stooped to a brand new low by recruiting Western women to its heavenly cause with promises of earthly delights.

According to CNN anchor Carol Costello, the marketing team at the
Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) is attempting to lure female
heathens into its ranks with promises of sugar-drenched chocolate
spread and cute kittens.

Yes, true to their reputation for unspeakable cruelty and
wickedness, the fundamentalists have found the Achilles heel of
the West: namely, Western women and their apparent addiction to
high-fat, sodium-based snack foods, compounded by an obsession
for adorable kittens. Not to mention smiley emojis!

“As ISIS continues to gain territory across the Middle East,
the recruitment of young women to its ranks is becoming
increasingly important to the group,” Costello croons.
“And among the most highly sought after targets? Western
women!”

Let’s attempt to wrap our minds around Costello’s argument for a
moment: Islamic State warriors, who’ve spared no cost, not to
mention bloodshed, in professionally promoting an image of
themselves as the most disgusting savages ever to set foot on
Earth, now want us to believe that by pushing Nutella, images of
furry kittens and smiley faces this will make us believe that
“their life on the battlefield isn’t so different than
yours”?

Joke as we will, that CNN chyron about kittens and Nutella was
genius. That’s how you grab a viewer’s attention on a
long-running story.

For the uninitiated, Nutella is an Italian-produced hazelnut and
chocolate spread that packs about 70 percent saturated fat and
processed sugar by weight. And anybody who has Facebook is
readily familiar with kittens, and the oddly bewitching effect
these furry creatures have on Western women.

The incredible, unconfirmed claims presented by Costello paved
the way for an interview with Nimmi Gowrinathan, visiting
professor from City College, New York, who got down to the brass
tacks of discussing IS recruitment methods.

Gowrinathan addressed the issue of disenfranchised women flocking
to the jihadist group, which she described as “this
7th-century ideology that is using 21st-century technology.”
She added that, “In France they actually found that 45
percent of the people calling the hotline to join ISIS were young
women.”

Gowrinathan didn’t say if the impressionable young French women
had inquired about Nutella and furry kittens. But at that point,
many viewers had apparently already abandoned the show, taking to
Twitter faster than you can say ‘pass the hazelnut spread’.

Max Fisher of Vox.com suggested the ruse was nothing new,
tweeting: “Oh please we recruited half of our staff with
kittens and Nutella.”